Here is the reason everyone knows Trump is a racist. The only person on the top staff at the white house who is black is now gone. There is no doubt he just lost his token Black person is there?
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Omarosa was only African-American at top WH salary
Omarosa was only African-American earning the top White House salary
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- According to a July 1 salary report on White House personnel, 22 people earned the top salary
- "It has been very, very challenging being the only African-American woman in the senior staff," Manigault Newman said
Washington (CNN)Omarosa Manigault Newman, a senior staffer who recently departed the White House and the only African-American drawing a top salary, said Thursday the "lack of diversity" was a challenge she grappled with.
"It has been very, very challenging being the only African-American woman in the senior staff," Manigault Newman told ABC News' "Nightline" on Thursday.
As
the top communications official at the White House Office of Public
Liaison, Manigault Newman was charged with African-American outreach and
said she regrets that the administration hasn't reached the level of
diversity she "strove to see."
White
House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Thursday maintained that despite
Manigault Newman's departure they still have a "really diverse team."
Asked
how many senior staffers in the White House are African-American now
that reality television star has departed, Sanders said: "We have a
really diverse team across the board at the White House, we always want
to continue to grow the diversity here. We're going to continue to do
that."
Sanders,
asked directly in follow-up questioning, could not say how many senior
staffers in the White House are African-American. The White House did
not respond to subsequent CNN requests for comment.
But
according to a July 1 salary report on White House personnel, 22 people
(several of whom have since departed) were paid the top White House
salary available, a sum of $179,700 a year. Manigault Newman was the
only African-American employee in the top tier.
Sanders
said that the first she heard of Manigault Newman's concerns was when
she aired them on morning television shows on Thursday.
"It's
something that we strive for every day, to add and grow and be more
diverse and more representative of the country at large and we're going
to do that," Sanders said from the podium.
She
also said that Manigault Newman was not the only person in the
administration charged with African-American outreach, pointing to
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and Sen. Tim Scott,
R-South Carolina, as partners in the efforts.
Manigault Newman, a former "Apprentice" star, also defended President Donald Trump against criticism that he's racist.
"Yes,
I will acknowledge many of the exchanges, particularly in the last six
months, have been racially charged," she said. "Do we then just stop and
label him as a racist? No."
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